A Swift Pure Cry - Couverture souple

Dowd, Siobhan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0099488167 ISBN 13 : 9780099488163

Editeur : Definitions (Young Adult), 2007

Synopsis

This is an extraordinary story of one girl's courage in the face of prejudice and hardship within a small community in Ireland.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Siobhan Dowd lived in Oxford with her husband, Geoff, before tragically dying from cancer in August 2007, aged 47. She was both an extraordinary writer and an extraordinary person.

A Swift Pure Cry was Siobhan's first novel and it has won the Branford Boase Award and the Eilis Dillon Award and was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal and Booktrust Teenage Prize. Her second novel, The London Eye Mystery, won the 2007 NASEN & TES Special Educational Needs Children's Book Award. Siobhan's third astonishing but sadly posthumous book, Bog Child, will be published in February 2008.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

Life has been hard for Shell since the death of her mam. Her dad has given up work and turned his back on reality, leaving Shell to care for her brother and sister. When she can she spends time with her best friend, Bridie and the charming, persuasive Declan, sharing cigarettes and jokes.

Shell is drawn to the kindness of Father Rose, a young priest, but soon finds herself the centre of an escalating scandal that rocks the small Irish community to its foundations.

This magnificent debut novel was inspired by a true story.

'Brilliant and heartbreaking debut' Irish Post

'By far the best novel I read in 2005' Tony Bradman, PEN

'Beautifully written and deeply moving' Guardian

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Definitions (Young Adult)
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0099488167
• ISBN 13: 9780099488163
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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